Mar
07
what hunting air guns in canada?
Byi want to do some hunting with air guns in canada but the max fps for an air rifle is 495 fps here. Anything stronger u need a license. Does anyone know any good air guns i can find at stores in canada that are under or at that limit of 495 fps and can be used for small game hunting like rabbits and small to medium birds? Please tell me the name of the gun. But if i cant find anything im gonna have to use a hunting slingshot for now, wich will be extremely hard.
6 Comments
March 7th, 2010 at 11:10 am
Jeez 495fps. That sucks. God bless the USA.
Try a Daisy Red Ryder, or just throw a rock at the damn thing.
March 7th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Yup, the 495 fps rule sucks, but it’s not that hard to get the license (as long as you’re over 18, it’s the normal firearms permit that you need, nothin special), or you can get someone you know that has a license to get it for you.
March 7th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
The Canadian limit of 500fps and or 4.2ft-lbs is already below the minimum of 5.0ft-lbs impact energy to make a clean, humane kill on a rabbit. You could take small birds such as the starling, pigeon or sparrow with a 4.2ft-lb rifle, if you keep the range short.
With a PAL you can purchase an effective hunting air rifle.
The Crosman Quest 500X is a popular one, if you want a really nice small game air rifle I recommend the “Diana” RWS 34
March 7th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Canadian Tire has a a few. And the larger sporting goods stores will have a better selection.
March 7th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
There really aren’t any Canadian legal hunting airguns that have enough power for rabbit. Rabbit requires 5 ft-lbs of impact energy.(1) Canadian law specifies that to avoid needing a firearms license the gun cannot have a muzzle velocity of more than 500 fps and a muzzle energy of 4.2 ft-lbs.(2) So any airgun that is suitable for rabbit would require a firearms license.
If you simply want to hunt small to medium sized birds, like sparrows and pigeons, which take 2-3 ft-lbs of impact energy with head shots (1), you can use a Canada legal airgun (like the Crosman Phantom 500, Dianna 24, or Canadian version of the Remington Airmaster 77) out to around 15-20 yards (though I wouldn’t go any further out than that).
Your best bet would be to get a firearms license and then buy an imported American version of the RWS 34, Gamo Big Cat, Benjamin Discovery, or Crosman 2100 since these airguns will have enough power to hunt rabbit.
June 11th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
4.2 ft-lbs? I’m probably just thinking a different unit of measurement measurement but I thought that the law says that the muzzle velocity just had to be under 5.7 N (or 500fps, either one)… anyways, this is not my area of expertise but if you had a hollow point with (relatively) decent expansion (say a crosman destroyer) could you be able to lessen the impact force required for an instant kill by componsating with the trauma from tissue damage